Example sentences of "[verb] by [art] [adj] rivers [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weir will be the second of its kind on the river and was designed by the National Rivers Authority to keep gravel spawning beds clear of silt . |
| 2 | They were being addressed by the National Rivers Authority environmental quality manager , Mr Malcolm Colley . |
| 3 | The tests done by the National Rivers Authority are different from those that we are doing . |
| 4 | The 90 box , bat ’ estate ’ was built by the National Rivers Authority at Shifford Lock in Oxfordshire . |
| 5 | The number of water pollution incidents in England and Wales rose by 4 per cent in 1992 to a total of 23,331 , according to official statistics produced by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) . |
| 6 | A report 's been commissioned by the National Rivers Authority and carried out by a group of local councils . |
| 7 | But despite the company 's own long-running antipollution programme the final lever to a clean River Tees looks like being what the company calls the ‘ very tough targets ’ set by the National Rivers Authority . |
| 8 | Although difficult to meet , the consent limits set by the National Rivers Authority are consistent with ICI ; s plans to cut discharges by half by 1995 but call into question the viability of some Teesside plants . |
| 9 | The second prosecution was brought by the National Rivers Authority after a mistake had caused chemicals to overflow from a storage tank , leading to a concentration of copper in the works discharge pipe of more than 17 times the legal limit . |
| 10 | The scheme proposed by the National Rivers Authority is designed to prevent flooding caused by a repeat of the 1947 event . |
| 11 | The increases have been introduced as part of the " polluter pays " principle and are intended to cover the costs incurred by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) in controlling water pollution . |
| 12 | A warning was issued by the National Rivers Authority in Shrewsbury that the swollen River Severn was expected to burst its banks overnight for the second time in a week . |
| 13 | If necessary flood warnings will be issued by the National Rivers Authority and police will try to warn residents using local radio , television and loud hailer vans touring risk areas . |
| 14 | Altogether 63 waters containing toxic algal blooms were identified by the National Rivers Authority , 37 of them in Anglian Region and 10 in the South West . |
| 15 | This proposed setting up ‘ nitrate sensitive areas ’ ( NSAs ) in which sources are at or over 50 mg/litre , to be identified by the National Rivers Authority . |
| 16 | She 's looked at the results of samples taken by the National Rivers Authority from a mineshaft and other sites on land owned by Watkins engineering , of Sling , near Coleford . |
| 17 | She 's looked at the results of samples taken by the National Rivers Authority from a mineshaft and other sites on land owned by Watkins engineering , of Sling , near Coleford . |
| 18 | She 's looked at the results of samples taken by the National Rivers Authority from a mineshaft and other sites on land owned by Watkins engineering , of Sling , near Coleford . |
| 19 | She 's looked at the results of samples taken by the National Rivers Authority from a mineshaft and other sites on land owned by Watkins engineering , of Sling , near Coleford . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the condition of Britain 's rivers following the 1990 river quality survey conducted by the National Rivers Authority . |
| 21 | The increased fines are likely to be in evidence shortly as a result of prosecutions planned by the National Rivers Authority of all 10 privatized water and sewage companies . |
| 22 | These pits have been dug by the national rivers authority . |
| 23 | Evidence collected by a new computer-controlled water monitoring and sampling device developed by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has been used for the first time to prosecute a company for polluting a waterway . |
| 24 | Instead of all the new controls being policed by the National Rivers Authority some of the responsibility was being handed over to Her Majesty 's Inpsector of Pollution , with decisions being taken by the Department of Environment . |
| 25 | An investigation was immediately launched by the National Rivers Authority following a tip-off from a member of the public . |
| 26 | A study of bathing beaches in England and Wales conducted by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has shown that they are getting cleaner . |
| 27 | The competition is being staged by the National Rivers Authority on Saturday , February 29 , on the north bank of the Tees between The Holmes and the A66 road bridge near Stockton . |
| 28 | The association 's concerns have been backed by the National Rivers Authority who said in a letter : ‘ The site and building is on the flood plane of the River Eden and the flooding of the area and the building can not be discounted . ’ |
| 29 | The project to encourage the otter is being backed by the National Rivers Authority , which is helping to pay for the artificial holt : |
| 30 | A report published by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) warns that toxins produced by blue-green algae could prove a hazard to human health should water become contaminated . |